This week I achieved and important personal and professional milestone. My principal came to me with an offer of a permanent contract, a procedural step that for all practical purposes assures me of a teaching job until I retire. It's not tenure, but it is security. In Florida beginning teachers must serve three successive one year contracts before being offered a Professional Services Contract. At the end of each of those three years the principal may, without explanation, renew or decline to renew the contract so it's a big deal in Florida. Needless to say, I was grateful and ecstatic. The offer was the culmination of years of hard work and sacrifice.
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